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  • English Word Tableau vivant Definition Same as Tableau, n., 2.
  • English Word Tableaux Definition of Tableau
  • English Word Tableaux vivants Definition of Tableau vivant
  • English Word Tablebook Definition A tablet; a notebook.
  • English Word Tablecloth Definition A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
  • English Word Tableed Definition of Table
  • English Word Tableing Definition of Table
  • English Word Tableman Definition A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
  • English Word Tablemen Definition of Tableman
  • English Word Tablement Definition A table.
  • English Word Tabler Definition One who boards.
  • English Word Tabler Definition One who boards others for hire.
  • English Word Tables d'hote Definition of Table d'hote
  • English Word Tablespoon Definition A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
  • English Word Tablespoonful Definition As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
  • English Word Tablespoonfuls Definition of Tablespoonful
  • English Word Tablet Definition A small table or flat surface.
  • English Word Tablet Definition A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
  • English Word Tablet Definition Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
  • English Word Tablet Definition A kind of pocket memorandum book.
  • English Word Tablet Definition A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
  • English Word Tablet Definition A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
  • English Word Tableware Definition Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
  • English Word Tabling Definition A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
  • English Word Tabling Definition The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
  • English Word Tabling Definition A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
  • English Word Tabling Definition Board; support.
  • English Word Tabling Definition Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.
  • English Word Taboo Definition A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
  • English Word Taboo Definition To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.